ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/
figure out which one it is, then use that in fstab.
ex:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD800JD-75MSA3_WD-WMAM9PD53517-part4 /home
ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Ronald Giardina
<general.reikan@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using a laptop as a server setup on my network and I have a SATA dock
> connected via USB, which I just drop a SATA drive into for some external
> removable storage. I generally just leave it connected as extra storage. The
> problem is when it sits idle the external dock will power down the drive and
> when it powers back up it's assigned a new drive letter. I've edited fstab
> to mount /dev/sdc1, but when it powers down and needs to be remounted fstab
> is useless because the device is now /dev/sdd1, and it works its way up the
> alphabet. Currently, it's back on sdc. Is there a way to assign a letter to
> a specific drive so that even if I remove it and reconnect it later the
> machine will recognize the drive and have that location reserved for it?
> I've tried google but I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for and wasn't
> able to come up with anything useful.
> Ubuntu 10.10 - i86
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